[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#694908: Redistribution of OBO Relation Ontology inside EMBOSS suite packaged for Debian

[Chris Mungall]

Hi Andreas

For the new RO we made the code BSD and the content CC-BY 3.0. The content is the part that is required by EMBOSS

http://code.google.com/p/obo-relations/

Is this sufficient for the old OBO_REL (http://obofoundry.org/ro)? Is my agreement sufficient? Or do you need a license file embedded somewhere on the website (the content is somewhat frozen at the moment, I advise EMBOSS to move to the new RO)?

On Feb 18, 2013, at 6:16 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> sorry for pinging again.  Could you please issue some sign of live to
> let us know whether we could hope for some license clarification or
> whether we might need to seek for other people affiliated to OBO
> Relation Ontology?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 04:06:10PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>> I hope you are fine and got my last mail.  In case you might need some
>> time for negotiating these licensing issues it would be really great to
>> give us some confirmation that you are working on this.  Any response
>> from your side (or somebody else in charge for OBO Relation Ontology)
>> will be helpful.
>> 
>> Kind regards
>> 
>>      Andreas.
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 03:40:20PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>> Hi Chris,
>>> 
>>> I'm writing you on the behalf of the Debian Med team which has included
>>> the EMBOSS suite into official Debian distribution.  The EMBOSS suite
>>> does contain some files of the OBO Relation Ontology.  I failed to find
>>> any licensing or contact information at
>>> 
>>>   http://obofoundry.org/ro/
>>> 
>>> but I noticed that you are the maintainer of this page and you might at
>>> least be able to forward this request.  So I hope is fine to contact
>>> you.  Please note that I have put the according bug tracker e-mail to
>>> this mail which makes this mail publicly available.  While we would
>>> finally need a public statement please make sure you drop this CC in
>>> case you prefer that your response is not publicly readable.
>>> 
>>> By packaging the EMBOSS suite the Debian operating system is currently
>>> redistributing some files from OBO Relation Ontology indirectly, because
>>> EMBOSS has included these since version 6.4
>>> (http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/emboss).
>>> 
>>> Debian considers copyrights and licenses very seriously, and our system
>>> only contains Free software, that is, materials that our users can
>>> freely use, modify and redistribute themselves. In addition to our
>>> system, we have a "non-free" archive in which, as a convenience for our
>>> users, we redistribute works that give less freedoms to our users.
>>> 
>>> In order to evaluate if works containing OBO Relation Ontology files can
>>> at least be distributed in our "non-free" area, I would like to know if
>>> Pathway ontology is available under other terms of use or licenses, that
>>> allow redistributing OBO Relation Ontology files.  You might even like
>>> to follow the Gene Ontology Consortium that has put its database under a
>>> Creative Commons BY (Attribution 3.0 Unported) license[1].
>>> 
>>> Kind regards and thanks for providing OBO Relation Ontology
>>> 
>>>       Andreas.
>>> 
>>> [1] https://www.ebi.ac.uk/panda/jira/browse/GOHELP-147
>>> 
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>>> 
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